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Ping Pong-A-Thon

Ping Pong-A-Thon is bringing communities together and uniting them under one cause: bringing freedom to the world’s most vulnerable. Their weapon of choice? The Pong. The fundraising and advocacy movement is combating human trafficking and exploitation of young people through a series of table tennis events held every year. Since...

Backpack Beds for the Homeless

In 2016-17, there were 285 rough sleepers seeking the help of Uniting Care Harrison, which was looking after people in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. This number included 127 people sleeping on the streets and in parks, 115 people sleeping in cars, 15 in tents and 28 in improvised buildings...

An elephant in Bayswater

It began with an elephant in the room. It was 1963 and the Rotary Club of Bayswater, Vic, chartered in 1961, had completed its community service project: a massive masterpiece of tubular steel, lovingly welded and moulded by Rotarians into the form of a pachyderm, over which children could clamber...